On social networks, especially Twitter, human rights activists urge Prince Salman to free Raif Badawi, for the sentence is not founded: freedom of speech is a human right.Furthermore, it is so cruel that the flogging is abolished some Friday , not to kill Raif Badawi.

He is now worldwide known, and received in 2015 the Sakharov Award of Free Speech.

As a supplementary argument towards the Saudi government, he is separated of his children, and his son expressed publicly his will to be reunited with his father.

At a time when the USA sell weapons to Saudi Arabia, and make of the country an example of progress in the Middle-East, because of the success of the”Women Drive”, it is necessary to recall that free speech does not exist in the Kingdom.

To sum up, I will take a stand , too, in favor of Raif Badawi, and urge King Salman to grant him, not of a royal pardon, for he is innocent, but of a royal progress: free speech, as in this verse of the Qur’an.